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Welcome to the Future Crimes video channel. Below you will find videos arranged by crime category covering the latest trends in crime and policing.

Artificial Intelligence

Science in Seconds – Artificial Intelligence. Advances in the field of machine learning.


Automated Crime

Cybercrime Toolkits


Biological and Human Genome

A good introductory video from National Geographic on genetool kits.


Andrew Hessel, pioneer in synthetic biology, discusses the similarities between computing and biology during a talk at Singularity University.


First human ‘infected with computer virus’


An introduction to “bio-hacking.”


New work from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon Univeristy have made touch interfaces literally just that with the presentation of Skinput at this weeks Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta.


Microchip implants and their various uses.


VeriChip


Biometrics

Story by David Reid for BBC World showing Lukas Grunwald for demonstrates cloning Europe’s new “secure” e-passport.


Hacking biometric passports


Mythbusters easily defeat fingerprint ID lock


CNN’s Atika Shubert asks security experts how hacker-safe are “biometric passports.”


Cloud Computing

Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

Perspectives on Cloud Security. Researchers describe the potential benefits, and security challenges, of cloud computing.
The Cryptographic Solution. Microsoft Researcher Kristin Lauter discusses cryptographic-based cloud access and search.


Critical-Infrastructure


GPS/Location Awareness


Mobile Computing

When your stolen mobile phone calls for help itself.


Mobile applications may be all the rage, but they could pose a serious security threat.


Musings on Future Crimes

University police are demoing a new crime fighting technology.


Dangers of Craigslist


Nanotechnology

Is nano-tagging grandpa a good idea?


RFID

With RFID tags being embedded in everyday items like passports, credit cards and transit passes, security becomes a concern with this always on technology.


Security flaw in Mifare Classic RFID applications exposed.


Robotics

A man goes on a killing spree and killing four people. Police send in a robot to negotiate with him.


Using robotics for law enforcement training, including “live fire” exercises.


The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP-Canada) experiments with police surveillance robots.


Perching UAV from Stanford University.


MAV’s (Micro-Air Vehicle ) called Project Anubis. These bug bots have seeker and tracking sensor algorithms for positive target identification and high maneuverability.


Social Networking

Does Your Police Department Tweet? Social Media as a Tool in Crime Fighting


Risky Behavior On Social-Media Sites


Hackers have created fake pages on Facebook, which claim to offer your exclusive images of Justin Bieber or Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, but are really designed to earn them commission and gather your personal information.


Social networking is becoming infested with debt collectors using illegal tactics to harass consumers.


Is Facebook compromising your privacy?


An interesting overview on Facebook related crime with reports from the US and the UK.


The Facebook “friends” that don’t exist.


Space/Satellite/Geospatial


The Humorous Side of Future Crimes

Star Wars Cops


Potential Future of Police Training


World of Warcraft Cops/Guards


Lego Cops


Computer Bad


Sim Cops


Social Networking Wars


Virtual World Crime

A revealing story on “virtual rape” games and gaming.


Second Life Police Department


Web 3.0/ Semantic Web